From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 20:45:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA02798 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 20:45:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA02787 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 20:45:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from max2-181.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA08845; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:44:22 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:44:26 -0600 To: Dave Walton From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: Mass install of FreeBSD? Cc: questions@freebsd.com Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >My boss wants to install FreeBSD on a dozen systems at work. Is there >some way we can do the install on just one machine, then make duplicates >of that drive on all the other systems? What would be the best way of >accomplishing this? "dump" and "restore" come to mind. But so does the entry at the bottom of one of the install menus that says, "Load configuration floppy" or some such. Just how might one create this configuration floppy? It hints at the ability to save an installation's parameters for future reuse. Then it would be real easy to go around to multiple machines and get them started installing from a local NFS system. -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison